To ask what your reaction would be to seeing someone wearing scrubs at a petrol station?

[Doublefaced]

Negative? Or ‘Meh. Not batting an eyelid’ ?

@trixiebelden77

I haven't seen any other threads about it to be fair. I find it a bit odd that your hospital encourages you to wear scrubs to and from work; it's a grounds for a written disciplinary where I work - I think mostly because the sight of someone in scrubs outside a hospital gets a large proportion of the general public frothing at the mouth atm. And probably also because we don't have enough scrubs to be wearing 3 pairs each a day.

@trixiebelden77

I think this is the sixth similar thread.

For the sixth time:

I’m an icu dr. We wear clean scrubs to work. We may go to the petrol station on the way to work. This may be at odd times as we don’t work 9-5 shuffling emails back and forth.

We may also stop on the way home from work. Again, in CLEAN scrubs as we change at work. Strangely, we don’t want to take covid or anything else we’re exposed to back to our families.

I am so so tired of this bullshit from truly nasty people. I get that you have a chip on your shoulder. It must be hard to sit through this doing a job that isn’t directly meaningful. But honestly a SINGLE MOMENT’S THOUGHT would have you given you a raft of reasons why you might see someone in scrubs daring to refuel their car.

In fact some of our staff stopped wearing scrubs to and from work because health care workers were spat on by people like you, or by the kind of people you encourage with your despicable efforts go encourage never is feeling towards health care workers.

If this pandemic is causing you to feel bitter then retrain and find actual meaningful employment.

Was that tirade aimed at me? If so now would be a good time to check out the ‘See all’ option on my OP. You’re welcome

I used to work in a vets and we wore them in and out of work.

@2BDIs

Not appropriate at all as medical staff are not allowed to wear scrubs or uniforms outside of hospital. The NHS take reports of staff wearing outside hospital setting quite seriously due to nasties on the uniform after a shift or by bringing disease and infection in before a shift

Shall I report myself?

As long as they weren't on their way into work ( or so long as they got changed into clean ones before treating patients) then fine.

It could have been me yesterday, went to an unexpected home visit in scrubs, petrol light on.
What else can I do but stop for fuel?
Coat on but believe me it was freezing!!

Unless you expected me to change in the street?

As a nurse I'd probably wonder where they were working and could get away with not changing to come home .
I know it's for our own safety the changing at end if shift but to be honest it's also a way of infecting more clothes ! As I will wear same set of clothes to and from work for the week.
Plus it doesn't mean they work in hospital done HV are in scrubs at the moment and the person maybe a vet or get nurse !

Id probably start singing I dont want no scrubs, a scrub is a guy who aint gettin no love from me ...

Wouldn’t think a thing apart from how cold they must be. Not my business, amazed people would pass judgement to be honest.

@TisTheSeasonToBe

It could have been me yesterday, went to an unexpected home visit in scrubs, petrol light on. What else can I do but stop for fuel? Coat on but believe me it was freezing!!

Unless you expected me to change in the street?

Can’t you change in your boot?

@2BDIs

Not appropriate at all as medical staff are not allowed to wear scrubs or uniforms outside of hospital. The NHS take reports of staff wearing outside hospital setting quite seriously due to nasties on the uniform after a shift or by bringing disease and infection in before a shift

It's considered good practice to change in and out of uniforms before and after work by the NHS, but this is for public perception more than infection control. See attached from the NHS guidelines about uniforms

[quote IDKNABYBIF22]@Doublefaced

Were you not a teeny tiny bit tempted to have a little Professor Umbridge style cough?! [/quote]
If it happens again I will

meh!

I'm a consultant surgeon. I wear scrubs (my own) to and from work since I'm not given a uniform and the traditional 'uniform' of a posh suit and shirts that need dry cleaning seems massively inappropriate in the middle of a pandemic when everything should be hot-washed if possible.

Using scrubs instead of my own clothes means I don't have to think about what to wear, I can hot wash them daily and tumble dry them without worrying about them falling to pieces or shrinking, and most importantly I dont have to worry about all of my home clothes getting all coviddy at work.

You may ask why I don't wear normal clothes, well believe it or not, I don't get a locker, private office or anywhere else to put them, and I've had belts, cufflinks even shoes stolen in the past, my home scrubs fold into a tiny bag that I can tuck out of the way and change into work scrubs.

Trouble is not always changing facilities and who particularly wants to get changed in the toilet like I have to.

Meh

@FixTheBone

As a lowly band 5 nurse I don't dare do the same; we have matrons who do random spot check on staff walking to and from the car park.

I do have a locker though, feel quite special now. Nice username btw .

[quote IDKNABYBIF22]@FixTheBone

As a lowly band 5 nurse I don't dare do the same; we have matrons who do random spot check on staff walking to and from the car park.

I do have a locker though, feel quite special now. Nice username btw .[/quote]
Wow a locker now you are lucky !
I'm a band 5 and u get changed in the toilet or have a 15 mun que each night to get in changing room .

‘I do have a locker though, feel quite special now.’

Is it full if free hand cream and pizza?

I work in the community (nhs) on my break popped into the shop to get something to eat and had some woman nag at me how i should not be out in public wearing that, went on and on until I said ok and walked off.
I don't work in the hospital and have nowhere to change (wasnt near the office either)
I struggle to find somewhere to pee, never mind changing clothes.
So it was either nip in and out really quickly, or go hungry.

I work in the community. There is no where else open bar petrol stations for buying lunch. OK, there's McDonald's drive through but that has a massive queue.

I think I know the location of every single petrol station in my community patch and it's rare to go in without seeing a paramedic, carer, some other nurse or someone else in uniform buying lunch or filling up.

So no, I'd not be in the slightest bothered. I'd assume you were at work and probably running late like the rest of us.

Wouldn't bat an eyelid.

My local petrol station/7-11 is the nearest one to our hospital. Always loads of people round the local area wearing scrubs. It's the filling station the ambulances fill up in!

I once went for a job interview, as I was being shown the ward there were cries for help behind a curtain. Me and matron went to assist and there was a lady in a hoist and a sea of faeces and two horrified nurses. Whilst we were helping them clear, she emptied her bowels down my back and ended up throwing my interview outfit into clinical waste and going home in scrubs and high heels. I didn’t get the job either.

@Doublefaced

Of course, plus biscuits and tea for all the time I spend sitting around on my arse at work, plus a spare charger for when I run my phone battery down making tik tok videos.

I work in a care home go in normal clothes, come home in my scrubs CBA to change after a busy night shift. Come home take off straight in wash, run around semi naked.